# Funk Art × Neo-Dada — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=funk-art+neo-dada
# Funk Art carries the structure. Neo-Dada appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from Funk Art (Style, 1960s–1970s) and its accent from Neo-Dada (Style, 1953–1965). Structural cues: Garish glaze colours; Bodily, off-colour motifs; Craft materials deliberately misused; Finishes that keep their handmade roughness. Accent cues, used sparingly: Ready-made objects brought onto the picture; Printed matter transferred by silkscreen; Forms halfway between painting and object; Traces of erasing, layering and soiling. Composition: One lumpen object shot frontally, filling the frame, with nothing composed around it. Type and lettering: Hand-pushed uneven lettering, left slumped and never cleanly typeset. Let one material quality come from the second style: Silkscreened newsprint over smeared paint, registration deliberately out, erasures left visible.. Mood: Play, Rebellion, Exhilaration, Technology. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Where the two fight
# - Both belong to Postwar American Art, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Funk Art: Aiming only at vulgarity and making it rough removes the base, which is the knowing misuse of craft materials, and the result reads as merely careless.
# - Neo-Dada: Pasting readymades alone never shows why they were chosen, and it becomes a shelf of knickknacks. Arranging it tidily strips the dirt and scale the work depends on, and leaves clean decoration.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/funk-art/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/neo-dada/design.md